Judge Judy (remember her?) is being sued for scamming some woman out of some really expensive china. How’s that for random celebrity news ? Judy’s producer Randy Douthit was going through a nasty divorce from Patric Jones , and the duo had some very pricey Christofle tableware. Jones has now filed a lawsuit against Judy, claiming the jurist and Douthit entered into a scam to screw her out of the goods … valued at $514,421.14! Jones alleges Douthit sold Judy the goods for $50,000, without her knowledge or consent. Jones claims Judy knew full well the deal was revenge . The conspiracy allegations get even worse, too. Jones claims Randy agreed to reduce his profit participation in the Judge Judy show so he wouldn’t have to fork over as much money in the divorce. Jones wants Judy to either fork over the china and flatware or pay $514,421.14, and she’s also seeking punitive damages. Judge Judy responded: “I have not seen any complaint, however, I don’t owe this lady a cent.” “If this 50-year-old woman would spend her time more productively at trying to find a job, instead of abusing the judicial system with frivolous lawsuits, we would all be a lot better off.”
Remember the ain’t isht broad who “gave back” a child she adopted from China??? Well aparently, that wasn’t the only time this happened… According to NY Daily News: A wealthy widow who gave up her Chinese daughter for readoption after eight years — then tried to cut the girl out of her husband’s $250 million estate — had years earlier dumped another baby she adopted from China, the Daily News has learned. Christine Svenningsen, 55, adopted a baby boy from China after her husband died in May 1997, then changed her mind after she brought the child she named Eric home to Westchester County, court papers reveal. Svenningsen already had five biological children, plus the first child she’d adopted from China, Emily. “Now after your adoption of Emily, did you go to China to adopt a boy named Eric?” Stephen Hochhauser, the lawyer for Emily’s new parents, asked Svenningsen in a 2009 deposition. “Yes,” Svenningsen answered. “What happened with Eric?” Hochhauser asked. “What did you do with him?” “He was adopted,” Svenningsen said, by “a person in New Jersey.” Court papers did not disclose when Eric was adopted or readopted. “And what was the reason for terminating (your) adoption?” Hochhauser asked. “I couldn’t handle seven children,” Svenningsen answered. Svenningsen — known for amassing a small kingdom of island estates in Long Island Sound, which she once described as “like little pieces of art” and renovates as a hobby, only to leave many sitting empty — decided she couldn’t handle six children, either. She gave Emily up in late 2004, when the little girl was 8. She then fought to exclude the girl from her party-supply magnate husband’s $250 million estate — a bid that was shot down last month by a state appeals court. Standing in the doorway of their Colonial-style farmhouse in a rural section of Connecticut, Emily’s new mom, Maryann Campbell, told The News, “We’re not going to be making any comment,” calling their court battle a “debacle.” The mother-daughter duo had just arrived home, a bespectacled Emily riding in the front seat of the family’s Mercedes-Benz. “Things will pass,” Campbell said as Emily rushed into the house. “We’re all fine.” In fact, court filings show Emily is much better off in her new home — where she’s able to sit at the same dinner table with the rest of her family, unlike when she lived with the Svenningsens. Svenningsen declined repeated requests for comment. Through an intercom at the family’s wooded Westchester estate, a woman said, “I can’t talk about anything.” In an affidavit, Svenningsen acknowledged that adopting Emily might have been a mistake. She said she and her husband, John — who was 27 years older than her — had decided to adopt a child from China because they had visited orphanages there and wanted to help. After they started the process, John was diagnosed with the lymphoma that would take his life. “Maybe I should not have gone to China. Everyone advised me not to continue with the adoption, but I just wanted things to go on as planned. My world was falling apart. My husband had cancer. Somehow I thought if I stuck to the plan, everything would be okay,” she said. Campbell’s filings say Svenningsen turned a cold shoulder to the girl even after she’d been readopted. Campbell said she had a “chance encounter” with Emily’s former mom, and told her Emily would love to see her and her former siblings because she missed them. Svenningsen said no. SMH at this lady for real…seriously though, why adopt children when you know you can’t handle them??? What a “c-word” (rhymes with runt)
This fall, television fans will need to adjust some familiar faces in some un familiar roles. With pilot season upon us, networks across the dial are casting shows they hope get picked up and turned into full-fledged series for the 2013-2014 season. Among the famous names already chosen to star in new projects, according to our friends at TV Fanatic , are… Sarah Michelle Gellar will star on an untitled CBS sitcom as the daughter of Robin Williams, who plays an advertising executive. Kyle Chander will play a cardinal on the Showtime drama The Vatican . Peyton List will be the female lead on Tomorrow People , a mixture of Heroes and X-Men on The CW. Felicty Huffman will move to Fox and anchor Boomerang , playing both a mother and a hitwoman. Minnie Driver will also star as a mother on the small screen version of About a Boy . Rupert Grint will play a burger flipper who wants to be a super hero on Super Clyde . Jason Isaacs will play the U.S. Surgeon General on CBS’ aptly-titled Surgeon General . Which of these pilots do you most hope gets made into a series?
The family of a three-year old girl from east China’s Shandong Province can finally breathe easier. The child has been rescued from her relatives’ washing machine. As depicted in the following video, the girl and her mother had been visiting loved ones when the toddler was left unsupervised in the laundry room. Firefighters were called to the scene and needed multiple hours to cut it open and free the little one, who was unharmed and hopefully learned a valuable life lesson: Always send your laundry out to be cleaned. Toddler Trapped in Washing Machine
Do we need to be more up in arms over Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue ? Via Salon.com : Sports Illustrated’s latest swimsuit issue used their ”seven continents” theme as an occasion to run photos of (mostly) white models posing with people of color as a background that signifies the “exotic” nature of the shoot locations. In one shot from Guilin, Guangxi (an autonomous region of China), a white model reclines on a raft while a local man uses a pole to mimic chauffeuring her around. In another, this time in the southern African Republic of Namibia, a white model poses with a black man holding a spear, wearing indigenous clothing that reveals as much of his body as hers. Sports Illustrated is hardly the first magazine or catalog to use people of color as set design, only the most recent. Other examples include famed mammy doll candlestick-makers Anthropologie, along with J.Crew, Free People, Vogue and Nylon, to name just a few. Now, the problem isn’t with featuring different cultures in commercial or editorial contexts; it’s much more about editorial intent. When a photo makes clear that the story it is telling is not about the person being shot with the model, that instead they are being used purely as cultural context or “exotic” buzz — that’s the problem. The man in Namibia, whether or not he authentically dresses like that or if he was hired to do so, is not the story in that photo. He is there for a boring, hackneyed attempt at visual juxtaposition. His brownness is contrast for her whiteness. His spear, his desert, his all-encompassing “African-ness” is the point. He’s furniture. He’s the Taj Mahal. The Eiffel Tower. He’s there to locate the viewer in the world, not tell them anything. And none of this is to mention that the picture offers a purely one-dimensional representation of an entire country. Did you know that Namibia is not just one big desert? Did you know this completely generic shopping complex is not actually in Fairfield, Connecticut, but Windhoek? Now look, I am not here to regurgitate a critical race studies paper from my college years, but it’s important to talk about completely bogus representations of race and culture when they come up. But the response to the issue has largely ignored these bizarre and racially clueless images, instead focusing on Kate Upton and her nearly nekkid Arctic adventure. A spread which, by the way, used penguins the same way the Namibia and Guangxi shoots used people. Are we sensing what’s wrong here yet? That is pretty effed up, but we’re probably more upset that they only have two brown models in the whole magazine! Photo Credit: Sports Illustrated
Mother Monster cancels the rest of North American trek due to ‘labral tear of the right hip.’ By Emilee Lindner Lady Gaga Photo: ChinaFotoPress/ Getty Images
Don’t let the doorknob hit ya where ya ex-boyfriend split ya Frank Ocean Moving To Shanghai For 2 Years After Grammy’s Via Rolling Out If you looked in the dictionary for the definition of an enigmatic recluse, then by all rights you should find Frank Ocean’s picture. The music world’s golden child has seen his name and work listed in every major publication and obscure blog ever since he released his critically acclaimed debut album, Channel Orange, and revealed his same-sex attraction over the summer. But, if Ocean had it his way, he’d live in solitude in the depths of a body of water that bears his name. But, since that’s not ever going to happen, the singer is apparently doing the next best thing: getting on a plane and moving across the globe. In a new cover story for The New York Times, Ocean talks (with minimum detail) about his rise to fame and how it feels to be an anti-pop star in an era when privacy is almost non-existent. And though Ocean has spoken in the past about wanting to move to Canada or London to flee the limelight, he’s now revealed to the publication that he’s going across the world to find solitude. He tells The New York Times that he plans on traveling to Shanghai, China, after Sunday night’s Grammys to write “in remote locations for the next two years.” Ocean also plans to write a book during that time as well. “You can say that. It’s fiction, and it’s about brothers. That’s all I’m going to say,” he revealed. These artists are gettin’ more weird by the day. Do what ya gotta do Frank, but don’t expect us to be waitin’ around for your great return. Image via GQ
Since the Victoria’s Secret catalog was dropped today….all their model babe pics have hit the internet in a strategic “generate buzz so that when men need to buy a last minute Valentine’s Day gift, they do it at Victoria’s Secret….cuz men like jerking off on sexy, made in China or Indonesia sweatshop laces and silks…probably not because of the little underage sweatshop hands that make it…but because it is aspirational…it brings hope that our dumpy wives look a little hotter than they normally do in the flannel pajamas…at least for one night a year…that we hope ends in a blowjob….it never does..but we are all allowed to dream. Here’s Erin Heatherton….a vagina Leonardo DiCaprio has cum inside….doing it better than any girl you get with.
Biography for Maria Castelo Country/Territory：Angola Age：23 Height：1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Hometown：Uíge Maria Castelo is 23 years old and 175 cm told. Her home town is Uige, Angola. Claudia Daniela dos Santos is on the Second place and Vanilde Martins is on the Third place. Maria will represent Angola in the 63rd edition of Miss World beauty pageant where Yu Wenxia from China PR will crown her successor. Miss World 2013 beauty pageant will be held in Jakarta and Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on
Biography for Ersela Kurti Country/Territory：Albania Age：22 Height：1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Hometown：Tirana Ersela Kurti was crowned Miss Albania 2012 on November 2. Ersela is 22 years old and stands 5’9″. She will represent Albania in the Miss World 2013 beauty pageant in Jakarta, Indonesia next year.
